dujacjaka. 
anam uta. 
allata. 
oenea. 
kharnti. 
rama. 
japonica. 
dodonea. 
horishana. 
comica. 
param uta. 
zeta. 
roona. 
964 AMBLYPODIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
preceding forms. $ lighter more violettish-blue; behind the cell from the costa a black spot penetrates into the 
blue. Borneo; Perak. 
A. dajagaka Stgr. (150 f as dajagora) differs from semperi in the tailless hindwings; besides the under 
surface shows a greenish gloss above the brown, and the light borders of the markings are less distinct or whitish. 
Borneo. 
A. anamuta Seynp. (150 f). Only the S' known, having been taken near Davao in Mindanao; 
distinguished by the whole brown upper surface showing a violet reflection only when seen in a certain direction. 
The bands beneath are distinctly composed of oval spots. From allata. which it entirely resembles beneath, it 
is separated by quite tailless wings. 
A. allata Stgr. (150 g) is distinguished from anamuta by the much broader black distal margin in 
both wings of the S' and $. The upper surface of the S is deep dark brown with a violet reflection; so dark 
that the marginal band of 2% mm width only contrasts with the almost black ground-colour in a certain light. 
$ dark bluish-violet, both wings very broadly margined with black. On the under surface the only essential 
difference from anamuta is the much narrower postmedian band of the forewing and the straighter course of 
it in the hindwing of allata. Philippines, Palawan, Borneo. 
A. oenea Hew. (147 h as oena) is much lighter than the preceding species, immediately discernible 
by the pale reddish-brown under surface on which the dark brown markings are rather scanty; particularly 
the proximal spots are small, some almost punctiform. North India; in some places not rare. 
A. khamti Doh. is unknown to me; it apparently resembles oenea and also occurs in Upper Assam. 
A. rama Roll. ( — querceti Mr., violacea Rob.) (150 B d) together with oenea and the following species 
forms a natural group which penetrates the farthest of all the Amblypodia (Arhopala ) to the north and some 
forms of which reach to the palearctic region. It has therefore been dealt with at large in Vol. I (p. 274), 
but as rama itself is distributed from Kiu-Kiang chiefly to the south and goes as far as Burma, we have 
figured it here. Above already very much allied to Zeph. quercus, deep dark blue, with a very broad margin; 
beneath somewhat similar to oenea\ hindwing with a minute tail. 
A. japonica Murr. (Vol. I, p. 274, pi. 75 b) is almost exactly like rama , but without its tail-appendage; 
also dodonea Mr. with a pale earth-brown under surface and light, dark-edged macular bands, japonica 
continues rama in Southern Japan, dodonea in the palearctic part of Kashmir; both reach to some districts 
of India; the former in Formosa where beside the typical japonica, which according to Matstjmtjra is not at 
all rare there, another ab. horishana Mats, occurs which is described (from a single $) to be above more broadly 
margined, beneath distinctly darker, with very narrow transverse bands, and much larger basal spots on the 
hindwing than in japonica. Of dodonea. which de Niceville takes to be a dimorphous form of rama with 
which it flies in some valleys of Kashmir, also an aberration is described: — ab. comica Nic. - from Bhamo 
in Upper Burma, above like dodonea, beneath with a denser, more intense colouring and somewhat removed 
macular markings *). — The imagines of this group of forms are in some parts common; they are the only 
Amblypodia I noticed flying among cornfields. They are presumably of all the species of this genus those that 
can stand the most cold. I captured dozens in Nagasaki on fresh autumn mornings; they proceed the farthest 
to the north as well as in a vertical direction up to hibernal altitudes, and Doherty observed rama flying yet 
in great numbers in winter near Ramgarh, when snow covered the ground. 
A. paramuta Nic. (= newara Mr.) (150 B b) is still much smaller than japonica (only about 35 mm), 
but easily discernible by the more dark blue colouring above which is very much reduced in the forewing by 
the very broad black distal margin, whilst in the hindwing it only covers yet the centre of the wing. Beneath 
the hindwing exhibits 4 distinct parallel macular bands. The imagines fly in Nepal, Assam, and Sikkim in 
the mountains, in the latter country they are not rare. 
A. zeta Mr. as well as the allied roona Mr. are at once discernible by their small size; zeta with a 
(? crippled) $ of only 31 mm expanse is silvery light blue, roona more violet; both fly in the Andaman Is.; 
Bethtjne-Baker considers the larva of typical zeta to have been suffering want, whereby the imago had received 
an abnormal colour. Both roona and zeta are beneath brown, similar to A. aroa (148 e), but the celhdar spot 
of the forewing is smaller, more oval, the discal band broader; in the hindwing the latter is more distinct and 
less dentate. 
*) It is a strange idea of Bethunk-Baker who considers comica having been taken in Upper Burma to be an 
aberration of dodonea which is quite unknown from that district and flies in Kashmir, about 25 degrees of longitude farther 
to the west. This may only be imagined possible, if both are forms of the widely distributed rama ; in that case dodonea woidd 
then be (according to Niceville) a dimorphous form of rama, since this author captured both forms near Simla with one 
blow of the net, — Bethune-Bakbr’s statements about anatomical differences seem to me not to be cogent for the separation. 
